Word Meanings - IMPRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed.

Additional info about word: IMPRESSIVE

1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. Drayton. - Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPRESSIVE)

• Emphatic
• Earnest
• forcible
• strong
• energetic
• impressive
• positive
• important
• special
• egregious
• consummate
• Imposing
• Striking
• effective
• dignified
• grand
• majestic
• august
• commanding
• Solemn
• Sacred
• formal
• devotional
• reverential
• ritual
• ceremonial
• religious
• grave
• serious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPRESSIVE)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to IMPRESSIVE)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• SACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• SACRIFICANT
  One who offers a sacrifice.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• REVERENTIALLY
  In a reverential manner.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.